Lounge etiquette

[defurax]

PDA ?

In this case I think it's coughographic Display of Affection :mrgreen:

 

[RichardMEL]

In this case I think it's coughographic Display of Affection :mrgreen:

Which ironically some people use the other sort of PDA to view....

 

[thommo50]

I assume and hope thommo that your comment is a wind-up. Hard to believe? Not where I sit.

Why a wind up. I fly a great deal, the worst Ive come across is someone with their feet on the lounge still wearing shoes in a Qantas lounge in Asia somewhere, told them in no uncertain terms to get them off. If he didn't I would have sat on them.

 

[Pushka]

Why a wind up. I fly a great deal, the worst Ive come across is someone with their feet on the lounge still wearing shoes in a Qantas lounge in Asia somewhere, told them in no uncertain terms to get them off. If he didn't I would have sat on them.

Well, you are saying that just because you haven't experienced awful behaviour in a lounge then it doesn't exist.

 

[thommo50]

The badly behaved people I've seen are Australian or most recently, Eastern European.

Good to see you didn't include the Chinese, otherwise people might consider you to be racist

 

[Pushka]

Good to see you didn't include the Chinese, otherwise people might consider you to be racist

People of different cultures behave differently. A kaleidoscope of 'behaviours' appears in an Olympics Athletes Village. To the extent you need to start 'adapting' your own cultural norms in order to eat. Queue behaviour is a classic.

 

[dajop]

Good to see you didn't include the Chinese, otherwise people might consider you to be racist

Probably good reason to not include them when talking about behaviour in lounges. Apart from the talking loudly on phones thing (which afflicts just most races and nationalities), generally find those from
China that can access lounges are very well behaved (perhaps a different story at the luggage carousel!)

In fact I'd say that in my experience 99% of the time, people (irrespective of race) are indeed well behaved in lounges. But I rarely use domestic lounges (or QF international lounges for that matter) so perhaps I'm missing the exposure to the stereotypical loud rude passengers that people are talking about.

 

[Pushka]

Yes - was about to say I've not seen anyone of Asian origin behaving inappropriately in lounges. So I didn't mention them.

 

[thommo50]

Yes - was about to say I've not seen anyone of Asian origin behaving inappropriately in lounges. So I didn't mention them.

(Well, you are saying that just because you haven't experienced awful behaviour in a lounge from Asia then it doesn't exist).

Please enlighten me, why is your analysis different from my experience in witnessing limited bad behaviour in lounges. Geez

 

[Pushka]

(Well, you are saying that just because you haven't experienced awful behaviour in a lounge from Asia then it doesn't exist).

Please enlighten me, why is your analysis different from my experience in witnessing limited bad behaviour in lounges. Geez

Surely you can see its completely different! I am not saying it doesn't occur - just that I haven't witnessed it.

You have posted that because you have not seen it then the person who has, is making it all up as a story and you called it that way.

I find this very hard to believe, great story though

 

[Dr Ralph]

I find this very hard to believe

As an extensive visitor to lounges all over the world, I don't find it hard to believe at all.

 

[thommo50]

As an extensive visitor to lounges all over the world, I don't find it hard to believe at all.

Funnily enough so am I. Oh well I suppose some people are just magnets when it comes to these things.

 

[Borisdog]

Funnily enough so am I. Oh well I suppose some people are just magnets when it comes to these things.

It only needs to happen once to be true though doesn't it.

I've never seen anything that bad either, but I don't have any trouble believing it to be so, especially given some of the staggeringly obnoxious people I've seen in lounges, and the general indifference of the staff toward it. Particularly the security guards who patrol.

 

[legroom]

The alternative thesis would be that some might not be that observant at all.

But .... still keen to draw on that otherwise blank "experience" to state a dogma.

Funnily enough so am I. Oh well I suppose some people are just magnets when it comes to these things.

 

[Pushka]

Funnily enough so am I. Oh well I suppose some people are just magnets when it comes to these things.

How absurd and insulting. Probably need to walk in others shoes - eg women - if you truly want to see what some males think is appropriate. Talk about blame the messenger!

 

[Digger11]

Ran into a group of foul mouthed obnoxious Aussies in Air New Zealand lounge in Auckland. They were smartass tools, it was like it was the first time they had been let out. They were heading back to Perth, the downside of the mining boom i suppose.

 

[ksthommo]

Had some words with an English Bloke in the Malaysian Lounge, KL back in August. We had just sat down, wife went to get some eats & drink.
10 feet away was this bloke loud as on his mobile phone with every sentence containing a nice word that didn't belong.
Asked him to keep it down, his reply was, am I too loud mate (in a louder voice), replied it's your language.
He toned it down and must have departed the lounge soon after. There were other guests seated before us who would have heard it all.

 

[Digger11]

Slightly off-topic (I struggle with staying focused) but my worst experience with Bogan Ausies (and i am 5th Generation Aussie so it is not Racist to abuse my own kind) was in a lift at the Boeing Factory in Seattle.
For those that havent been, the lifts are huge and hold a busload of people to get you up to the top balconies overlooking the plant.
Anyway, it was a bit crowded with about 50+ of us squeezing into the lift, unfortunately the last bloke in, who was wearing a xx_X Tshirt and thongs and sunglasses on his head and was bald 5ft nothing and with a goatee, decided to not turn around and just face all of the patrons who had already got in to the lift and had turned around to face the front like you do in a lift

Said Bogan then yells out in a broad Aussie accent "This is where I give youse all the f#$#ing ****s and face the wrong way" thinking it was somehow funny I assume.
The mainly elderly American tourists were just appalled.
My wife, who knows me better than I do, quickly grabbed my arm and quietly said " you are on holidays, let it go".

If anyone ever deserved a kick box to the head (ala The Castle) it was this little t#rd.

 

[RichardMEL]

Let's get away from trying to pigeonhole various peoples, races etc because I think most of us have seen cringeworthy moments out there in the wide world from all sorts. It is true that certain cultures are far more respectful and have far more strict social customs than ours, and some have very different ones. I, for one, can not imagine a boorish Japanese tourist, but the odd one must be out there. I just thing stereotypes are not a great thing.

Sadly though I find myself embarrassed/cringing at some fellow aussie "antics" out there more than others but I'm not responsible for those just because I share citizenship.

Back to lounges.. the thing that bugs me is that there's a certain type of person who will treat an airline/airport lounge like their loungeroom at home, and not the public space that it is (I classify the SQ "The Private Room" as public too, despite the name - though when I was lucky enough to be there last week everyone was well behaved, with the exception of someone's really LOUD phone ringing lol).

My point is that the people that think it's OK to put their feet (bare or otherwise) on tables/furniture, or have loud profane discussions in person or the phone, or what have you do so because they treat the place with a different sort of attitude that most of us have. I enjoy lounges absolutely. I also try to be quiet and respectful when I'm in one - mostly alone, but if I have company I keep conversation quiet and certainly do my best to not slip a bomb or two(which I may do in my own lounge room) and generally be aware that other patrons want a quiet and pleasant environment.

As I often opine in such threads when they crop up, to me it comes down to basic common courtesy, consideration and manners. Many of us have been brought up with them and it's a default setting. Some others.. not so much. I think the same set of manners should apply wherever I am - the beach, the QC or TPR, or the local maccas. That's just me though.

 

[Pushka]

I was in a large upmarket shopping centre today. It has comfy couches. And one guy sound asleep. At least he didn't snore I s'pose.